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Re: Storing XML

From: Sander Striker <striker_at_apache.org>
Date: 2004-01-09 11:35:20 CET

On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 11:19, Torsten Rueger wrote:
> Moi,
>
> is anybody here storing xml in subversion? Specifically is there a way
> to avoid stupid conflicts wit xml?
>
> I mean, if I store the document <foo/>
> and A edits it to <foo a="bar"/>
> and then B edits it to <foo b="bar"/>
>
> there will be a conflict using subversion and "text" mode. Even,
> logically there is no conflict, as <foo a="bar" b="bar" /> is the
> merged result.
>
> So is there a way to avoid these "artificial" xml conflicts ?

At the moment, no. Maybe in some future version of subverion,
when/if we decide to do pluggable merge modules. Currently
we only support text, using the lines as the tokens we compare.

Sander

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